Florence White

Frumenty

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      20 min

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By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

Mrs. Pickersgill, a B.B.C. friend, writes from Newport, Monmouthshire: ‘Your talk on “Frumenty” was both helpful and interesting. The wheat can often be bought at a corn shop instead of the baker’s, if people would just enquire. I have a recipe which is very good if a savoury be required.’

Ingredients

  • Hulled wheat, cree’d (stewed) to a jelly
  • cheese grated
  • tomatoes sliced
  • salt and pepper.

Method

  1. Butter a pie dish.
  2. Skin some tomatoes by pouring boiling water over them.
  3. Grate some cheese.
  4. Season the stewed or ‘cree’d’ frumenty with salt and pepper, and put it into the dish.
  5. Then a layer of sliced tomatoes.
  6. Season this also with pepper and salt.
  7. Cover with grated cheese.
  8. Sprinkle